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Press Release: Elite XC Conference Call Notes
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I think it's important to thank the city of Stockton and The Stockton Arena. We picked Stockton because it is a great MMA town and turns out some great MMA fighters. Three of the guys on the card are either local or in close proximity. You have Nick Diaz, a Stockton guy, Jake Shields, who is not too far away in San Francisco and Scott Smith, who lives near Sacramento. We're expecting a great turnout for, like I said, a great evening of MMA. The Stockton Arena is brand?new, absolutely beautiful. Those in attendance are in for an exciting evening.

Again, thanks to all the press on this call. Thanks to all the athletes for being here. To the press, I want you to know that we at EliteXC, myself included, are always here for you. We're a phone call away. Any questions, we're at your disposal. Thanks for the interest.

Lappen: Hello, everybody and thank you for being on the call. I'm going to walk you through the television fights for the card very quickly, then turn it over to the fighters, which is the reason for this call.

Starting with the SHOWTIME bouts, the first bout will be Wilson Reis against Brian Caraway at 140 pounds. To give you a little background, Caraway has won seven straight fights. He actually just won a fight a few weeks ago, on a Strikeforce card. He's going against Reis, an undefeated fighter out of Philadelphia, who EliteXC is very excited about. We believe Wilson is arguably the best fighter in the world at 140 pounds. He'll be making his SHOWTIME debut. He's fought on some of our undercards and just destroyed his opponents. He's got a tough opponent in Brian, so it should be a great fight.

The second fight is Rafael Feijao against Travis Galbraith at the 205-pound weight limit. Travis has won four fights in a row and is the King of the Cage Canadian champion. He is fighting a guy in Feijao who is, again, another guy who we would put up against anybody in the world. Feijao is 6?1. His only loss came when he up?kicked a guy and was disqualified for it. He comes out of a camp with Antonio Nogueira and Anderson Silva. He's just been devastating everybody we've put him in front of. Actually we had a very hard time finding an opponent for him for this fight. Travis was gracious enough to step up and brave enough to step up. It should be a great match. But there were a number of fighters we went after who turned down the fight because they didn't want to face Feijao.

In the main event of the SHOWTIME portion of the card, we are having our first EliteXC heavyweight title fight with Antonio "Big Foot" Silva taking on Justin Eilers.

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